Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 315
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Chapter 315
After hearing the explanation, Lee Han understood the situation and nodded.
“The negative mana acted as a repulsive force and absorbed the vitality from your hands… Why did you swing it around so recklessly?”
“We were so frantic thinking we had to wake everyone up, we couldn’t help it.”
At Durgyu’s words, the other two friends had no choice but to nod.
There was much to say, but now wasn’t the atmosphere for it.
“Still, it’s fortunate that it’s not a serious injury. Let’s just treat what we can treat.”
Lee Han cast 【Low-Grade Laceration Healing】 magic on Angrago’s hand.
Then he hesitated.
‘Oh no.’
Come to think of it, when there wasn’t a trustworthy professor nearby, it was never good for Lee Han to use magic carelessly.
If healing magic failed, it could result in a more terrible situation than not attempting it at all.
“Thank you, Wardanaz.”
Unaware of Lee Han’s inner thoughts, Angrago was grateful as his torn wound healed. Lee Han slightly averted his gaze.
“Raphadael, you… um… do you really need to use healing magic?”
“…”
Raphadael didn’t say it out loud due to his pride, but he made the same expression as Gainando when he lost at card games.
An expression of feeling wronged and pitiful!
Lee Han sighed inwardly.
“Don’t regret it.”
“????”
When the magic ended, Raphadael looked at his cleanly healed hand and tilted his head in confusion.
What was he supposed to not regret?
“Durgyu.”
“I’m fine, Lee Han. It must be tiring, so stop using magic.”
“No. It’s not a problem with the magic…”
Lee Han whispered quietly so only Durgyu could hear.
“…It’s incomplete.”
“What did you say?”
“The magic is incomplete. I was so frantic that I realized it too late.”
“…”
Durgyu looked at Lee Han with a shocked expression, then looked at his friends’ hands.
If they had been unlucky, wouldn’t his friends’ skin have stuck to the bandages?
“So just bear with it a little and treat it with a potion.”
“…But… when my friends went through that and only I…”
“Those guys were lucky enough to heal, so it doesn’t matter. Just treat it safely with a potion.”
“What are you two talking about?”
Raphadael asked in confusion.
He wondered if there was some evil presence remaining in this cave.
“It’s nothing. Oh right, Raphadael. I almost forgot, but thanks to you I remembered.”
“What?”
Thwack!
“Who said you could run off on your own?”
“Ugh… That’s… gah…”
* * *
Gu Bon, who had been waiting at the spot swept by flames, let out a sigh of relief when Lee Han returned with his friends.
From the looks of it, things had ended well.
“You’ve worked hard! It’s truly fortunate.”
“We all worked hard together.”
At Lee Han’s words, Gu Bon and Bijidek couldn’t help but be moved.
To receive respect from a mage who had displayed such incredible magic – what adventurer’s heart wouldn’t race?
The mercenaries seemed to feel that excitement too, as they came to express their gratitude.
“Thank you, Master Mage!”
“Thanks to you, we survived!! If we had followed that bastard Buldahak, we would have died!”
“I really thought we were going to die…”
The flesh-chunk ghouls and the ghoul army’s attack, the King of Ghouls’ descent, the flames that raged as if they would burn everything in the cave…
If it had been any other commission, even having just one of these would have been a life-threatening crisis, but they had experienced all of them at once.
It couldn’t help but feel miraculous that they had survived.
“Thank you, Master Mage!”
“We sincerely thank you. Please accept our gratitude!”
Gu Bon and Bijidek were newly surprised by the heartfelt loyalty of mercenaries they had barely known.
Of course, it wasn’t incomprehensible. Even Gu Bon and Bijidek felt loyalty growing toward that young mage.
But to think that even those greedy mercenaries, who were practically criminals, would be moved.
Perhaps this was true magic.
“Yes. Thank you. I’ll accept it with respect as well. Could you give me your hand for a moment?”
At Lee Han’s words, a nearby mercenary quickly extended his hand.
He was prepared to carry out any errand without a single complaint.
Clank!
“…???”
As bone restraints were fastened around his wrist like handcuffs, the mercenary blinked. Lee Han paid no mind and summoned more to fasten around his ankles, then summoned a bone hand around his neck.
During the earlier battle, he had reverse summoned everything due to the situation, but now that it was over, it was time to fasten them again.
“Next.”
“Uh… no… Master Mage…”
“Quiet. Next.”
Lee Han firmly bound the mercenaries and formed them into the same formation as when they had arrived.
Gu Bon asked carefully.
“Did the mercenaries do something offensive?”
“Pardon?”
“If not, then why suddenly…”
“Ah. I need to take them to collect the bounty.”
“…”
Gu Bon was at a loss for words.
Someone like Buldahak might be one thing, but the rest of the mercenaries here were essentially petty criminals.
They’d probably only get a few coins, yet to go to such thorough lengths to capture them for that.
Just what…!
‘Is that what a real adventurer is like? Have I been too loose and careless with my work all this time?’
The maniacal thoroughness shown by an adventurer on his first commission made Gu Bon suddenly reflect on himself.
“Outside!!”
Though they were bound and dragged out, the mercenaries rejoiced as they took deep breaths of the outside air.
No matter how much light there was, the damp and gloomy air inside the cave had been exhausting.
Lee Han also stretched and said to Gu Bon.
“Could you watch over these mercenaries for a moment?”
“Yes? That’s not difficult, but is there something…”
Gu Bon was worried about Lee Han.
After such an intense battle, no matter how great a mage he was, he couldn’t be perfectly fine.
His coat was already in a mess, which made him even more worried.
Could it be that he was heading to a remote area away from people due to side effects from evil magic?
“Ah. I’m trying to capture Raphela field mice.”
“…I… I see.”
Lee Han headed toward the forest with Sharkan.
Bijidek spoke to Gu Bon, who was staring blankly at their retreating figures, with a suddenly startled voice.
“Wait. I told you! That mage is from the Wardanaz Family! That famous magical family!”
“What did you say… No. Wait. Wait, what???”
He had missed it earlier because of all the chaos, but what Bijidek just said was more shocking than the King of Ghouls appearing from inside the cave.
Who was who now??
* * *
Blancet, the elf clerk at Granden City’s Adventurer Guild, was first shocked by the sight of mercenaries walking in one after another with dejected expressions.
And she was second shocked by the sight of Einroguard students reporting with very tired faces.
“What… what do you mean?”
“There was an evil entity from another dimension in the Bulparn Hill cave. It called itself the King of Ghouls, and seemed to be a being that was sealed quite some time ago.”
Blancet quickly took notes while immediately opening a drawer and pulling out paper birds for urgent communication.
The paper birds that flew out through the guild window soared quickly away. Carrying content that would make the Imperial officials working in Granden City come running in a panic.
“I’m truly sorry. A subjugation force will be organized right away and head in that direction.”
Blancet spoke with sincerity.
To send Einroguard students on their first commission to that place without recognizing such a dangerous entity.
Even if it wasn’t intentional, she couldn’t be free from responsibility.
If an accident had happened, how much would Einroguard have protested… no, how much would they have complained.
It was extremely fortunate that they escaped safely like this.
‘Maybe it was fortunate that they were Einroguard students.’
Because they were clever Einroguard students, they sensed the presence of such an evil entity and escaped, but otherwise they might have been annihilated along with clumsy mistakes.
“A subjugation force?”
“Yes. Evil entities from other dimensions can never be left alone, even if they seem weak.”
“Ah… well. We subjugated it ourselves.”
“Pardon?”
“We subjugated it ourselves for now. It was an urgent situation, so we had no choice…”
“What do you mean…”
Bang!
Daihal, the eldest whom he had seen at the Dalcard Family, burst through the door.
Then he spoke while struggling to suppress his excitement and worry as much as possible.
“I am Daihal, Imperial Special Administrator from the Dalcard Family. I rushed here upon hearing news that an entity from another dimension was discovered. Please explain accurately once more… Wait, what are you doing here?”
Daihal was startled to see Lee Han.
His younger brother’s friend from the Wardanaz Family was sitting together with adventurers.
“I discovered it.”
“Is that so? How fortunate in this misfortune that an expert discovered it.”
Daihal sat in front of Lee Han. Then he calmly pulled out a quill pen.
“How did the opponent refer to itself?”
“It called itself the King of Ghouls.”
“King of Ghouls… About three entities with such titles come to mind immediately, but I haven’t heard information that any of these three are currently active.”
“That’s possible. The opponent I encountered seemed to be quite an ancient entity. It wouldn’t be strange if the Empire had no information about it.”
“Indeed.”
Daihal regained his composure while conversing with Lee Han.
Unlike other rambling adventurers, this friend of his younger brother from the Wardanaz Family was truly a comfortable person to talk with.
An adventurer who explained incidents in order according to the six principles without omission!
‘Asan definitely made a good friend at Einroguard.’
Daihal resolved that when he returned to the manor, he would grab Asan and advise him to learn from his friend.
Asan would surely be grateful for such meaningful advice.
“You’re saying it was attempting possession? This is…”
“Yes. And it kept summoning ghouls.”
“We need a subjugation force as soon as possible…”
“Um, Administrator?”
Clerk Blancet tried to interrupt.
It seemed like Special Administrator Daihal was missing something right now.
“Could you wait a moment? This is an urgent situation, so I’ll give you a chance to speak after gathering information as quickly as possible.”
“But…”
“I apologize.”
“No…”
“So what other abilities did the entity calling itself the King of Ghouls demonstrate?”
“Form dispersion, negative energy emission, it seemed to connect to other dimensions as well, but I’m not certain about that.”
“That alone is sufficient. I’ll send specialized experts immediately…”
Bang!
“They said they subjugated it!!!”
Unable to endure it, Blancet kicked her chair and shouted.
Daihal asked back in confusion.
“What do you mean by that?”
“They said they subjugated it! They said they subjugated it! They subjugated it!”
“What on earth do you…”
“We did subjugate it.”
Lee Han pulled out the shattered crystal skull.
From the chilling aura felt within it, Blancet and Daihal instinctively sensed what kind of entity had been dwelling in this crystal skull.
“It was an entity sealed in ancient times, and it seems to have escaped through a gap where the seal was broken.”
“So… did you really subjugate it?”
“Yes.”
“…”
Daihal was at a loss for words.
The tip of his quill pen that had been writing smoothly came to a stop.
Bang!
The guild door opened violently again and a knight from the Granden City Knight Order entered.
“Sir Daihal! I just heard the news and called all available knights. I’ve also contacted the temple, so the priests will join us too. We’ll depart immediately, so I’ll receive the information on the way.”
“Ah, no. It’s been subjugated.”
“Pardon?”
“It’s been subjugated…?”
The knight was seeing Special Administrator Daihal lose confidence and hesitate for the first time.
It was truly a shocking sight.
And the shocking sight didn’t end there.
“Wait. You guys are…”
The knight discovered familiar faces among the adventurers sitting in front of Daihal.
They were young students from other knight families.
“…Why are you wearing those around your necks?”
They were wearing signs around their necks that read 【I will never disobey orders again】.
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